Sweet potato? In the pavilion, Ma Yilong, who was gnawing on a stick, thought for a while and said, "I really haven't heard of this." Listen to the name, and the corn has a way? ”

"Not bad." Zhao Hao smiled and said, "These two crops, as well as potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, pumpkins, sunflowers, and tobacco...... And so on, all brought by the Tessians from the Americas. ”

"So much?" Listening to Zhao Gongzi's introduction of these colorful exotic crops one by one, Ma Yilong couldn't help but be stunned, just like Huanchang Xinding heard Qin Huai Bayan's name, and his whole body was soft.

"Let's just talk about this sweet potato, sweet and glutinous, delicious and full, steamed can be eaten as a staple food." When Zhao Hao mentioned this, he was much more confident. "It also doesn't pick the land, the yield per mu of the upper field is 10,000 catties, the yield of the middle field is 7 or 8 thousand catties, and the yield of the worst field is 4,000 catties per mu!"

"Ahem, cough, ahem......" Ma Yilong almost stabbed the bud stick into his throat. His eyes widened and he said, "There is such a divine thing in the world?" Won't the common people never have to go hungry again? ”

"Who's to say it isn't." Zhao Hao nodded, and continued to boast: "There are also potatoes, with a yield of less than 2,000 catties per mu, and they can also be used as staple food!" ”

The so-called 'prosperous era of Kangqian' in later generations was actually supported by these three brothers, so it was also called 'the prosperous era of sweet potatoes that ate chaff and diarrhea', which completely dispelled the thousand-year-old worship of Chinese civilization by Europeans.

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"Good!" Ma Yilong was finally completely persuaded by Zhao Hao, and slapped the table excitedly: "Bring the sweet potatoes and potatoes, I'll go to Kunshan with you!" ”

"What is this...... Zhao Gongzi said slightly embarrassed: "I have eaten and seen these two things, but I haven't planted ...... yet"

"Why?" Ma Yilong was stunned.

"Because the red-haired ghost is too treacherous, he hides the delicious and high-yield sweet potatoes as treasures and does not allow them to be passed on, and only pays tribute to the Ming Emperor The corn that looks the best, but the yield is not enough to see." Zhao Hao sighed.

"And where did you see it?" Ma Yilong asked, "Hao Jingao?" ”

Zhao Hao likes this kind of brain supplement expert, and immediately nodded and said, "Yes, it's Haojingao." ”

He opened his mouth on the spot, and based on the historical materials in his mind, he made up a fantastic trip to Macao. Ma Yilong and his students were dumbfounded.

Zhao Hao told Ma Yilong that the crops he said were in the hands of the Francois people, but they were very self-cherishing and refused to leak the seeds.

However, I have already thought of a way, and I believe that in a few years, I will be able to get all the seeds back to Mr. Meng He for planting.

He also told Ma Yilong that these out-of-season vegetables on the table were also grown after he mastered the production method of Western glass and built a glass greenhouse on Xishan Island.

Zhao Hao also emphasized how the Taixi people kept the production process of glass secret.

Subtly, it created a highly confidential complex process in Ma Yilong's heart, such as glass, which Zhao Gongzi can handle. It's not a problem to get something as simple as a seed that can't really be kept secret.

But what Lao Ma didn't know was that there were no seeds for these crops in Macau at all. They were brought to Luzon by the Spaniards and introduced to China during the Wanli period......

However, the Spaniards are very attentive to these things, and they are not false at all. Especially sweet potatoes, whoever dares to carry them out of the country will have to be beheaded. It was an overseas Chinese named Chen Zhenlong who twisted the sweet potato vine into the suction rope before smuggling it back to Daming and dedicated it to Jin Xuezeng, who was the governor of Fujian at the time.

Of course, this is more than 20 years later, and now Xiaojin is still serving as a magistrate on Chongming Island. The Spaniards have just arrived in Luzon and have not yet established themselves......

But this did not affect Zhao Hao to draw cakes for Ma Yilong, and finally said that the old man was willing to give him a few years.

However, Ma Yilong's idea is actually that he still lives in Liyang Kai Academy, and only goes to Kunshan every year to stay for a few months to guide.

Zhao Hao pretended not to understand, and asked Secretary Ma to take out a map and introduce to Ma Yilong how Kunkaisi's 600,000 mu farm was planned and produced.

"This is the first issue!" Zhao Gongzi pointed out the country and said in high spirits: "Pudong still has one million acres, Chongming also has one million acres, and these lands must be developed in the same way!" ”

After speaking, he sighed and said: "But the biggest problem now is that the level of the field manager and agricultural technicians is low, and the number is small, not only can the technology of the two crops of rice not be mastered, but the mastery of various agricultural technologies is also insufficient!" ”

"How's that going to work!" Ma Yilong was anxious when he heard it. His heart was broken to hear that so much land was going to be ruined. With a red neck, he said to Zhao Hao: "Do you know? If you serve this place well, you will get twice the result with half the effort, and if you don't serve well, you will get twice the result with half the effort. The yield can be several times worse! ”

"So exaggerated?" Zhao Hao asked, "Then Mr. Meng He is in charge, how much can an acre of land produce?" ”

"That depends on the cooperation of the people......" Ma Yilong sighed. His prestige in Liyang is high enough, but the scattered family production mode of the common people and the limited ability to accept it doomed him to be unable to directly direct them to act in unison, and he could only focus on guidance. How much you can listen to depends on the peasants' personal understanding.

In this way, he can also increase the annual yield of Liyang per mu by one stone! In the eyes of others, this is already a miracle. But Ma Yilong was very dissatisfied.

Because of the hundreds of acres of land in his academy, the average annual output is eight stones, which is two stones higher than that in the county. This is also the result of many students not being able to wait, or are always lazy.

The land that Ma Yilong personally served had an annual output of more than ten stones. Shi Jizhi and other proud disciples can also reach nine stones.

He had a strong desire to see if he could replicate the high productivity of the Mushoin Academy if strict management was adopted.

If you can't, what you're pursuing is meaningless.

Otherwise, you will die without regrets.

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So when Ma Yilong listened to the management structure and reward and punishment system of Zhao Hao Farm, he couldn't sit still.

Go to Kunshan! It's your best testing ground!

"I dare not say more, three stones for early rice, and four stones for late rice dare to pack tickets." Ma Yilong cut the railway.

"That year was the ...... of Seven Stones," Zhao Gongzi was so shocked that his chopsticks fell on the table.

600,000 acres of land planted with two crops of rice, you can harvest 4.2 million stone in a year!

Of course, half of the land is to be planted with mulberry trees and cotton...... Because the profit of these two cash crops is twice that of growing grain.

At the beginning, Zhao Hao didn't plan to make a profit by growing grain, he was counting on the benefits of mulberry cotton.

But Ma Yilong's guarantee made him make a fortune just by growing grain...... Phew, no, this son is not here to get rich.

"Just." However, this Shennong's concerns are really not ordinary. He looked at his academy again, and the students who were carrying hoes and preparing to go to the ground, and some of them were puzzled: "What about me, the students?" ”

"Of course we went together!" Zhao Gongzi had the idea of packing and taking it away, and laughed and said: "Move Wuben Academy to Kunshan, let's expand the scale and train agricultural technicians in batches!" They can also continue to send back to Liyang to guide farmers out of poverty. ”

In addition to guiding agriculture, Mr. Meng He can also use the power of the research center to conduct agricultural research. Agricultural research has achieved results, first in the Jiangnan company test, successful can be promoted in Jiangnan and even the whole Ming Dynasty! Isn't this Mr. Meng He's ideal? ”

"Yes." Ma Yilong finally had nothing to say, nodded and said, "That's it." ”

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